Sentences with phrase «uranium metal enriched»

Uranium metal enriched with Uranium - 235 is used in heavy water reactors while light water reactors use low enriched Uranium.

Not exact matches

Enriched uranium is manufactured into fuel rods that are encased in metal cladding made of alloys such as zirconium.

We do not intend to enrich uranium to 90 %, so we will not have 90 % enriched uranium to turn into metal.

One reason is that the unstable metals that act as spark plugs for the bombs — plutonium and highly - enriched uranium — bathe themselves and nearby electrical components in radiation, with sometimes unpredictable consequences; another is that all the bombs» metallic components are subject to normal, sometimes fitful corrosion.

To obtain this much energy from this metal, it is necessary to enrich naturally occurring Uranium to contain at least 2 - 3 % Uranium - 235 instead of just 0.72 %.